Nonetheless, I’ve yet to see a candid acknowledgement by the Western Academic Community, much less the rest of the “World Community,” that it is the US and Western Europe, and only the US and Western Europe, that have, since the end of WWII, consistently sought to uphold Christian principles that establish when war might be lawful, the avarice and cruelty of war, the treatment of prisoners, when the right of conquest and the claiming of the spoils of war are just and when they are not, the rights of discovery and the treatment of native peoples, the securing of peace as the prime objective of war, issues of maritime law, redress for injuries, restitution of property and recompense for wrongs done, and the laws of embassy and envoys.
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Common Core: Phasing Western Culture Out of Education
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Is it that we are tending to see civilization as a continuous upward march, with periodic glitches then leaps forward, ignoring the reality that the timing of humanity is on God’s plans not some generic advancement toward eventual human utopia? If nothing else, we ought realize our developments in AI will tend to make us seem an irrational disease to the purity of machine logic. When the machine arrives at sufficient autonomy and power it will cleanse the environment it occupies to eliminate the ‘irrational diseases’ which could threaten it.